LONGHI, Pietro
(b. 1702, Venezia, d. 1785, Venezia)

Promenade on Horseback

1755-60
Oil on canvas, 58 x 62 cm
Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice

This is a curious type of courtly hunting in which the stiff poses of the main figures contrast with the hardly fearsome presence of their prey, the turkey in the foreground.